Graciela Arias
Bio
Born in Ayacucho, Peru, 1978. She has lived since she was little in the city of Pucallpa (Ucayali, Amazonas, Peru) in contact with nature. He studied at the Eduardo Mesa Sarabia Higher School of Artistic Training in Pucallpa, graduating in 2001. Since then, he has dedicated himself to painting and disseminating Amazonian culture. He has participated in multiple group exhibitions at the national and international level, and has held three individual exhibitions, the most recent being "A Lunch in the Countryside" at the Alliance Française in Miraflores, Lima; among others are “Maker of Dreams”, Room 770 Municipal Gallery Ricardo Palma and “Vírgenes del Ucayali” ICPNA of Miraflores. Among her merits is the second prize for Amazonian contemporary art and an honorable mention in the BCR Contemporary Art Competition - 2014. Likewise, she was selected by the Peruvian Chapter of Women to Watch under the curatorial assistance of Giuliana Vidarte to participate in the exhibition that took place last April at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington. Currently a complete set of 8 machetes is part of the collection of the Inter-American Development Bank - IDB.
Graciela Arias is considered one of the most important representatives of contemporary Peruvian Amazonian painting.
Statement
My work focuses on regional themes, customs, beliefs, myths and Amazonian legends; empowering the role of women, especially the Shipibo woman, their day-to-day struggles to adapt to the current reality in the face of a society that advances by leaps and bounds, their role in this society as creator, disseminator, defender and resistance of living culture.
Loaded with symbolism from an image to color, it maintains a charge of social, religious and economic criticism.
Making comparisons of the mythical, the ancestral with our current reality, carrying a message of rescue of nature, beliefs and ancestral culture: to save a pleasant world for future generations with awareness, respect and understanding towards nature and protect its humanity.
